Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Highly Controversial Federal Action Puts Manatees in Harm’s Way the (CORRUPT) U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) issued its final rule to downgrade the status of the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. The rule affects both the Florida and Antillean subspecies and was pursued despite strong scientific and legal evidence that shows the downlisting of manatees is not warranted at this time. The FWS decision leaves manatees and their habitat exposed to attacks and could ultimately preclude the species' recovery.

THANKS TO THE SOCIOPATHIC KOCH BROTHERS (PLF) AND OTHERS WHO VALUE PROFITS OVER PEOPLE + PLANET, YOU HAVE DONE PRETYY BANG UP JOB DESTROYING THE ENIVRONMENT, BUTCHERING HELPLESS ANIMALS, AND CORRUPTING THIS NATIONS GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS (W/AN OBVIOUS SPECIAL AFFINITY SHOWN TOWARD FLORIDA'S LEGISLATURE & YOUR BASTARD BUDDY SCOTT). YOU ARE ALL SOULESS POS, UNWORTHY OF THE AIR YOU BREATHE, ETHICALLY BANKRUPTED, BOTTOM FEEDING MURDERERS.

I do not usually go off with such nasties but for f*cks sake people! These evil people, sociopathic special interest and corrupt corporations are KILLING life on our planet right in front of us! To suggest it is anything less than a WAR is a grave mistake, and one which will allow for the continuation of extinctions of life on Earth as we now know it.

AN ONGOING ECOCIDE, THE INSIDIOUS WAR ON ANIMALS IS A WAR AGAINST ALL OF HUMANITY!

Seals are dying in Canada’s commercial seal hunt, and this year could be particularly gruesome.

FACT: 98% of seals killed in the past few years were between three weeks and three months – too young and slow to escape.

That’s because the Government of Canada rolled back protections for the youngest seal pups and their mothers by opening the slaughter early – before the newborn pups had finished nursing. This interruption during the critical birthing period means mother seals nursing their young may have been killed, and their pups would have been left to fend for themselves. Tragically, many of them are just too young, and would likely starve to death.

FACT: Seals don’t always die when they’re shot or beaten. Sometimes an injured seal will escape, only to die a slow and painful death. They’re called the “struck and lost.” The struck and lost are one of the cruelest aspects of the hunt. But the truth is, it’s simply impossible for any of this hunt to be humane.

So much cruelty, and for what? Can you believe that many of the pelts sit in a warehouse because there’s no buyer for them? FACT:Sealers have admitted to dumping thousands of seal pelts into the ocean because they didn’t have a market to sell them to! And after decades of government attempts to create a market for seal meat, 92% of the meat from the commercial harp seal hunt is still wasted.

ALL OF THE BARBARIC BUTCHERY BEING INFLICTED AGAINST EARTH'S ANIMALS IS DESTROYING OUR OWN HUMANITY. NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO BE CRUEL, IT'S NOTHING SHORT OF A BIOLOGICAL DEFECT TO BELIEVE ANYONE PERSON OR ANY GROUP OF PEOPLES IS SOMEHOW ENTITLTLED TO SUCH. Human beings have no right to designate other fellow Earthlings as being mere 'things', as though life on our planet exists for us to use, abuse and/or otherwise disrespectfully consume as we choose. Animals, humans and/or nonhumans are not f*cking commodity products!

END HUMAN SUPREMACY NOW! If we continue to allow this corrupted ideology to determine our social values, it will eventually destroy us but it will be of our own, collective choice, our own doing. What is far more unjust is how our choosing ignorance, indifference, greed & gluttony will concurrently & systematically cause pain, suffering and extinction to so many of the beautiful creatures of Earth.

WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT NATURE! Humanity is part of nature, we can not (and will not) exist without it... at least, not in a way other than us becoming 'farmed' ourselves (ex. how we "grow" animals). We are not supposed to be OK with ecocide nor genocide. We should feel a moral obligation to want to protect the vulnerable lives among us, those who have no choice, we are supposed to be their voice.

So unless we are OK with the masses be turned into a collective species of sociopaths, serial killers, mindless over-consuming suicidal idiots, WE MUST CHANGE! STOP THE WAR AGAINST ANIMALS & LIFE ON OUR PLANET & WE WILL SAVE OURSELVES

Lonesome George

Every now and then George closes his eyes for a few centuries the stars stop for the occasion and the sun goes out, his night lit only by dream...

"Hello, big boy," she says, shell new and lustrous, green as the deep sea; and her eyes deep as the dark gems that glow deep where it roots...

George, lifting his nose skyward still seeing her behind his closed eyes moves forwardslow as lava oozing from the bottom of the sea

His scaled feet arch like trees first planted then pulled up from their roots...

"I'm coming," he says.

Written by, Steve Campbell

"Lonesome George" is the name given by biologists to the last surviving male Giant Galapagos Tortoise. There are no surviving females.

The entire Giant Galapagos Tortoise species was destroyed directly by humans. The tortoise's shells were used to make tourist trinkets. The shell is part of the tortoise's body (like turtles). Without their shell, they die much like a human having their skin removed (I imagine, equally as painful).

The animal was usually still alive when it's 'soft' body was cruelly cut out from it's shell. In countries like China, and the Island of Bali, this brutal and unethical practice of live tortoise/turtle slaughter continues.

George is approximately 90 years old. In 2008, great efforts were made to help George produce offspring by fertilizing eggs of a 'close' relative species. Sadly, the experiment failed.

George is the rarest known creature in the world and... the loneliest.